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MOTHS OF THE GENUS RUPELA HEINRICH 377 



RUPELA SPINIFERA, new species 

 Plate 28, Figukes 19-19c 



Male. — Wings shining white. Fore wing with veins 11 and 12 

 separate: 4 and 5 connate. Hind wing with 4 and 5 connate or 

 shortly stallved. Anal tuft yellow. 



Alar expanse, 39-45 mm. 



Genitalia with gnathos bandlike, simple. Uncus with basal part 

 produced backward into a broad, rounded, concave, and bifurcate 

 plate armed along its outer margin with long, heavy spines; apical 

 part long, its base clothed with long, slender hairs on dorsum, its 

 apex sharply hooked. Harpe broad; cucullus abruptly narrowed; 

 apex bluntly pointed ; basal projection of costa long, digitate, fusing 

 into membranous transtilla; sacculus produced at apex into a wide 

 flange which is extended in a sclerotized ridge to basal projection 

 of costa. Anellus consisting of ventral plate and dorsal membrane; 

 upper margin of ventral plate angulate, lateral margins broadly 

 excavate. Aedeagus long, tapering from slightly enlarged base to 

 produced apex. 



Type.—\J.^.'^M. no. 51868. Paratype in British Museum. 



Type locality. — Castro, Parana, Brazil. 



Remarks. — Described from male type (W. Schaus, collector) and 

 one male paratj'pe (E. D. Jones, collector) without dates and both 

 from the type locality. 



A large species distinguished by its long slender aedeagus and 

 heavily spined uncus. 



Female unknown. 



RUPELA MONSTRATA, new species 



PLATE 2S, Figures 20-20c 



i¥aZe.— Wings white. Fore wing with veins 11 and 12 separate; 

 4 and 5 closely approximate. Hind wing with 4 and 5 closely approx- 

 imate. Anal tuft yellow. 



Alar expanse, 46 mm. 



Genitalia with gnathos bandlike, simple. Uncus with base only 

 slightly widened, produced backward into a stout, forked process 

 with heavy, ribbed stem and thick, stubby prongs, the latter bearing 

 one or two spines; apical part greatly extended, digitate; apex 

 abruptly tapering and slightly hooked. Harpe broad; cucullus 

 abruptly narrowed; apex bluntly pointed; basal projection of costa 

 normally produced but not strongly sclerotized (transtilla mem- 

 branous and not well defined) ; sacculus produced at apex into a 

 shallow flange whose upper extremity is slightly notched. Anellus 

 consisting of ventral plate and dorsal membrane; the upper and 



